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CEO Compensation: Oops, you’ve been lapped again… and again

While the CCPA report card offers a clever way of visualizing the issue of income inequality, it does much more than that. It also undresses the main arguments of those emperor’s-clothes apologists for astronomical CEO salaries.

You’ve been lapped. While you were tossing out the tree and packing up the last of the Christmas ornaments for next year, that whirring whoosh of wind you heard was one more of Canada’s highest paid CEOs zipping past you, Flash-like, on the cash fast-track through 2017. By 11:47 a.m. on January 3, the first…